Opening Post and World Map
  • Nobody Expects
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    For some time I've been following (and, of course, enjoying) some of the great graphic timelines of this forum: Kanan's Our Fair Country, LeinadB93's Hail, Britannia, KaiserEmu's Of Droughts and Flooding Rains and Planita13's A Shining Valley; and I have felt the impulse to try and make my own TL in a similar style (albeit it will be difficult to reach their qualities, to be fair). So, the last couple of months, more or less, I've been developing in my mind the basics of this TL of mine, which would be centered around the idea of a more successful Spanish XIXth century that leads to a less disfunctional Spain, and its place in an altered (and I hope interesting) world setting. I'll try to follow the POD(s) logically, although I don't want to be constrained and I'll embrace the "rule of cool" and paralelisms to OTL in order to spice things up when I feel convenient.

    The primary POD of Nobody Expects is the survival of one of the older sons of Charles IV of Spain, Carlos Domingo Eusebio (born in 1780, dead in OTL in 1783). It won't have consequences (at a macro level, at least) until 1808, when French troops enter Spain theoretically to invade Portugal in the context of the Peninsular War. The existence of this Prince Charles, older than OTL Prince (here Infante) Ferdinand, leads to a different Aranjuez Mutiny, a conflict between the two Bourbon scions that leads to civil war across the Spanish Empire and a different Peninsular War that spares Spain of OTL devastation. There's also a minor previous POD, in 1613, that's really just to justify a fetish of mine
    (Hispanic Murcian Texas) and to add some uniqueness.

    Every comment, appreciation, question, suggestion etc. is very welcome, and although the main "big events" and the general flow of the world are already mostly planned, there's plenty of room to include new content to flesh out this TL, so if you want to propose anything go ahead. And to begin with, I hereby present the world map as of the 1st of January, 2019.


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    I would also appreciate requests on which parts of the world you would like to know more about, so I can focus on them in the updates. Hope you like it and thanks for reading!
     
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    IBC Democracy Index and USDoS Political Freedom Report, 2021
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    Status of same-sex relations by country and territory in 2019
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    Spain
  • It feels only right to beging with the Wikipedia page of TTL's Spain, which at the moment is just the introduction and the Wikibox, but I plan to update it progressively. It follows OTL wikipedia structure and not many things are changed, but the devil's in the details.

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    Spanish Schism
  • A new update to offer some insight on the end of the Spanish Empire ITTL and setting the stage for the XIXth century.

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    And also a non-exhaustive non-ordered list of to do things to organize me better:
    • Finish up the Spanish Wikipage (long term).
    • Texan update.
    • Italian update.
    • Spanish American Independence Wars.
    • Empire of Mexico, its demise and the Mexican-American War (constants and variables, always constants and variables...)
    • Argentinian Civil War.
    • The Great War.
    • Revolutionary wave of 1910-1915 and Spanish Revolution.
    For now I think those are the main major updates, depending on my free time and inspiration I may make smaller things inbetween.
     
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    Construction of the Liberal State (I)
  • A big update, I think it's been my most ambitious one yet, although I don't know if you will find it interesting. I have also updated the world map of the opening post, it's mostly a cosmetic change with minor costal and external or internal border adjustments in some countries, there's no retconing. Hope you like!

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    Italy
  • Tomorrow there's a general election in Spain, as I have teased, but I haven't given it much scope because I prefer the lore to be more established before centering more in the 'nowadays' aspect of the TL. I should have done something along the lines of a news article for today at least explaining the immediate background, but I had already nearly finished Italy so I have chosen to make the update about it instead; if I can, there may be another small news update today, and posibly a full-fledged election update tomorrow. In the next updates I plan to cover post-schismatic Spain (mainly the construction of the liberal state in the early 19th century, I know it doesn't sound much exciting) and then return to Italy (the Triennio Rosso and squadrantist and fascist clashes, and the rise of Il Vate; which I hope is more entertaining).

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    Fascism
  • ottomans literally legalized homosexuality in 1858 and accepted a trans woman singer in the 1970s, what changed

    *Pretends to have known it all along* Yes, but in the aftermath of the defeat in the First Balkan War, there was a huge discredit for the pro-modernizing faction and a general rollback of reforms and openness, and the state became increasingly repressing and bent on religiosity as a means of tighting together peoples that had little in common. I may have to retcon this now that I know this, but my general idea was for the Ottoman Empire to reject modernity in an attempt to avoid weakening.

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    Rise and Life of Il Vate
  • So, after this, guys, is there anything you would like to see? I may go back either to early Liberal Spain, Civil War Argentina or 1860s US, but if you have other suggestions I'm open, and as always questions are welcomed.

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